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01/18/2010

Although the Supreme Court has blocked broadcast of the federal challenge to Prop 8, and Judge Vaughn Walker has scrapped his pursuit of having the actual trial posted on YouTube, independent filmmaker John Ireland will soon give folks a window into what went on in court. He's producing his own version, a reenactment of the testimony, and the first installment is set to appear on YouTube tomorrowFEDERAL PROP 8 TRIAL REENACTMENT TO BE POSTED ON YOUTUBE [Towle]

Very cool. Can't wait to see it.

I'm sorry, but this is really stupid. I could honestly see the value in doing this if full transcripts of the testimony were available, but all we have are the very important, and very valuable, but necessarily limited tweets and liveblogs that people were able to put out to help us keep up.

We can follow those liveblogs, understanding that they were limited, and form our own understandings. If the proceedings had been broadcast, we could follow them and watch.

The far most likely outcome of broadcasting third-hand reenactments will be to create enough confusion and people trying to claim that they are direct quotes that bloggers are going to be banned from the courtroom for the balance of this trial, if not the future.